Apple-baker.



MELE BAKER,

APPLIOAToN Hman Nov.

Pmemed Mar. En?, 1913..

ATi-@RN EY UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE;

WILLIAM'FA. FOWLER AND CHARLES H. MEAD, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

APPLEJSAKER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, lVILLIAM F. FowLEn and CHARLES H. MEAD, citizens of the United States, and residents of Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apple Bakers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to electrical apple bakers, and the object of our improvement is to provide a sanitary device for baking or cooking apples, and is designed to be used in the windows of restaurants and other publie .places where the publie may observe the .process of such baking or cooking. `We attain these objects by means of the electrical cooking device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which--- Figure l is a sectional elevation of our device taken on the line 1-1 in Fig. 2; Fig. 2 is a View, the upper half of which shows a top view of our baker and 'the lower-half of which shows a sectional view taken along the line 2 2 in Fig. 1; and, Fig. 3 is a diagram showing the electrical circuit of our baker.

Similar numerals of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, the dished disk i is composed of any suitable metal, such as polished. aluminum, having the flange 2 formed on its peripheral edge and the outer upturned flange 3 formed on the peripheral edge of said flange 2.

The cover l is preferably made of transparent glass in order to expose the apples to view while they are being cooked.

A plurality of vertically extending tubes 5, having closed top ends, are formed inte gral with and on the top side of said dished disk 1, and spaced suliciently far apart to prevent the apples, which are placed on said tubes to be cooked as described later, from touching each other.

The cylinder 6 is formed on the under side of the dished disk 1 to provide a housing for the insulating disk 7, which is composed of a refractory electrical insulating material, such as porcelain, and the heat insulating disk 14, preferably composed of asbestos. Said disk 7 rests u on the disk 14 and the latter is supported by the ring 15 which in turn is supported by the foot members 16.

The posts 10, which are composed of the same material as that in the disk 7, are formed on the top side of and integral with vin a. plane parallel to and near Specification of Letters Patent. -Iatented M131- 14, 1911. Application filed November 22, 1909.

Serial No. 529,497.

ance Wire, such German silver' wire, hav llng its ends 11 and 13 connected wlth therk switch 12, and the latter is connected With the service lines in the usual manner to. admit anvelectric current to said coils 8 and 9. Said spiral coil 8 is embedded in the disk 7 the top surface of said disk, so that the heat generated in said coil will be easily radiated to the dished disk 1, and each of the helical coils 9 is embedded in a post 10 near the peripheral surface of such post, so that the heat generated in said helical coils will be easily radiated. to the tubes 5 to cook the apples placed over such tubes.

The tubes 19 are formed of any suitablemetal, such as aluminum, with both ends open and with their bores sufficiently large to lit loosely over ,the tubes 5.

An opening is made through the core portion of each apple to be baked to remove the core, and a tube 19 is inserted in such core opening to prevent .the apple from sticking to the tubes 5 While being cooked.

The operation of our device is as follows The apples with the tubes 19 in them are placed over the tubes 5, the cover 4 placed in position over the tubes 5 on the dished disk 1 and an electric current turned on the coils until the apples are baked, when such apples are removed from the baker with the tubes 19 still in them and such tubes .19 removed from the apples afterward.

What we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An electrical apple baker comprising a disk having a plurality of vertical integrally formed posts composed of a refractory electrical insulating material, aspiral coil of electrical resistance wire embedded in said disk, a helical coil of electrical resistance wire embedded in each of said Vertical integrally formed posts of said disk and connected in series with said spiral coil, a glass bell adapted to cover the heat producing portion of the baker, and open'ended tubes adapted to be inserted in the apples to prevent them from sticking to the baker While being cooked.

2. An electrical apple baker comprising a pan having a cylindrical housing formed on its under side, a plurality of Vertical tubes formed integral with and on the upper side ol. said pana disk having a plurality of veri tical integrally formed posts composed of a refractory electrical insulating material in the upper portion of said cyllndrical housing and its vertical integrally formed posts i fitted in the bores of said vertical tubes of i said pan, a spiral coil of electrical resistance I Wire embedded in said disk, a helical coil of electrical resistance Wire embedded in each of said vertical integrally formed posts of said disk and connected in series with said spiral coil to form a continuous electric eireuit, a heat insulatingdisk secured in said 

